No. 2 Auburn didn't break the school record for its largest SEC win ever on Sunday, but that's about as far as complaints about the Tigers' weekend sweep of Arkansas can go.
Kasey Cooper's two home runs, including a grand slam, lifted Auburn to a five-inning, 10-0 win over the Razorbacks. The Tigers (41-4, 12-3 SEC) outscored Arkansas 54-0 in the series in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to extend their win streak to a school-record 16 games.
Both of Cooper's homers came in the first two innings. In the first, her two-run shot gave Auburn a 2-0 lead. It was the 50th homer of her career. Career homer No. 51 came an inning later, as her grand slam extended the lead to 6-0. The junior from Dothan has 15 homers on the season.
The Tigers received three more runs from homers in the game, as Emily Carosone's fourth-inning two-run shot and Whitney Jordan's solo homer to lead off the fifth helped seal yet another run-rule win.
Rachael Walters (7-2) got the start and the win, allowing three hits and striking out seven Razorbacks in four innings of action. Kaylee Carlson pitched the fifth inning and struck out two more batters, giving Auburn pitchers nine strikeouts for the game.
The last time Auburn shut out an SEC opponent in a three-game series was against South Carolina in 2007. Arkansas (17-28, 1-14 SEC) only had one player reach third base in the entire series, while eight Auburn players had home runs over the weekend, averaging 3.6 runs per inning.
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